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Unsupported DDL - Amazon Athena

The following DDL statements are not supported by Athena SQL. For DDL statements supported for Iceberg tables in Athena, see Evolve Iceberg table schema and Perform other DDL operations on Iceberg tables.

  • ALTER INDEX

  • ALTER TABLE table_name ARCHIVE PARTITION

  • ALTER TABLE table_name CLUSTERED BY

  • ALTER TABLE table_name DROP COLUMN (supported for Iceberg tables)

  • ALTER TABLE table_name EXCHANGE PARTITION

  • ALTER TABLE table_name NOT CLUSTERED

  • ALTER TABLE table_name NOT SKEWED

  • ALTER TABLE table_name NOT SORTED

  • ALTER TABLE table_name NOT STORED AS DIRECTORIES

  • ALTER TABLE table_name partitionSpec CHANGE COLUMNS

  • ALTER TABLE table_name partitionSpec COMPACT

  • ALTER TABLE table_name partitionSpec CONCATENATE

  • ALTER TABLE table_name partitionSpec SET FILEFORMAT

  • ALTER TABLE table_name RENAME TO (supported for Iceberg tables)

  • ALTER TABLE table_name SET SERDEPROPERTIES

  • ALTER TABLE table_name SET SKEWED LOCATION

  • ALTER TABLE table_name SKEWED BY

  • ALTER TABLE table_name TOUCH

  • ALTER TABLE table_name UNARCHIVE PARTITION

  • COMMIT

  • CREATE INDEX

  • CREATE ROLE

  • CREATE TABLE table_name LIKE existing_table_name

  • CREATE TEMPORARY MACRO

  • DELETE FROM

  • DESCRIBE DATABASE

  • DFS

  • DROP INDEX

  • DROP ROLE

  • DROP TEMPORARY MACRO

  • EXPORT TABLE

  • GRANT ROLE

  • IMPORT TABLE

  • LOCK DATABASE

  • LOCK TABLE

  • REVOKE ROLE

  • ROLLBACK

  • SHOW COMPACTIONS

  • SHOW CURRENT ROLES

  • SHOW GRANT

  • SHOW INDEXES

  • SHOW LOCKS

  • SHOW PRINCIPALS

  • SHOW ROLE GRANT

  • SHOW ROLES

  • SHOW STATS

  • SHOW TRANSACTIONS

  • START TRANSACTION

  • UNLOCK DATABASE

  • UNLOCK TABLE

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